System and Method of Facilitating Digital Therapy for Long-Term Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Abstract

A system and a method of facilitating digital therapy are used to provide long-term neuropsychological rehabilitation for patients with physical and cognitive disabilities. A user account is prompted to initiate a plurality of rehabilitation tasks with a corresponding personal computing (PC) device. The user account is then prompted to complete a specific task with the corresponding PC device. At least one specific hint for the specific task is outputted, if the specific task is improperly completed by the user account. If the specific hint is outputted, and until the specific task is properly completed by the user account, the previous step is repeated. If the specific task is properly completed by the user account, at least one reinforcement notification for the specific task is outputted. Then, a plurality of iterations is executed for the previous steps, until each rehabilitation task is properly completed by the user account.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method of facilitating digital therapy for long-term neuropsychological rehabilitation, the method comprising the steps of:
 (A) providing at least one user account and a plurality of rehabilitation tasks managed by at least one remote server, wherein the user account is associated with a corresponding personal computing (PC) device;   (B) prompting the user account to initiate the plurality of rehabilitation tasks with the corresponding PC device;   (C) prompting the user account to complete a specific task with the corresponding PC device, if the plurality of rehabilitation tasks is selected to be initiated by the user account;   (D) outputting at least one specific hint for the specific task with the corresponding PC device of the user account, if the specific task is improperly completed by the user account;   (E) repeating step (C), if the specific hint is outputted by the corresponding PC device, and until the specific task is properly completed by the user account;   (F) outputting at least one reinforcement notification for the specific task with the corresponding PC device of the user account, if the specific task is properly completed by the user account; and   (G) executing a plurality of iterations for steps (C) through (F), until each rehabilitation task is properly completed by the user account, wherein the specific task of each iteration for steps (C) through (F) is associated with a corresponding task from the plurality of rehabilitation tasks.   
     
     
         2 . The method as claimed in  claim 1  comprising the steps of:
 providing the specific task with at least one task instruction; and 
 outputting the task instruction for the specific task with the corresponding PC device before step (C). 
 
     
     
         3 . The method as claimed in  claim 1  comprising the steps of:
 providing the specific task with a plurality of visual elements, wherein the visual elements include a unique element and a plurality of identical elements; 
 displaying the unique element amongst the identical elements in a specific graphic distribution with the corresponding PC device of the user account during step (C); 
 prompting the user account to select a specific element from the plurality of visual elements with the corresponding PC device during step (C); 
 designating an improper completion of the specific task with the corresponding PC device of the user account, if the specific element is not the unique element; and 
 designating a proper completion of the specific task with the corresponding PC device of the user account, if the specific element is the unique element. 
 
     
     
         4 . The method as claimed in  claim 3  comprising the step of:
 graphically reducing an opacity of the specific element as the specific hint with the corresponding PC device of the user account during step (D), if the specific element is not the unique element. 
 
     
     
         5 . The method as claimed in  claim 3  comprising the step of:
 graphically removing the specific element as the specific hint with the corresponding PC device of the user account during step (D), if the specific element is not the unique element. 
 
     
     
         6 . The method as claimed in  claim 3  comprising the steps of:
 further providing the specific task with a plurality of new visual elements, wherein the new visual elements include a new unique element and a plurality of new identical elements; and 
 repeating steps (C) through (F) with the new visual elements, the new unique element, and the new identical elements instead of the visual elements, the unique element, and the identical elements, if the specific element is not the unique element. 
 
     
     
         7 . The method as claimed in  claim 3  comprising the step of:
 graphically enlarging the unique element as the reinforcement notification with the corresponding PC device of the user account during step (F), if the specific element is the unique element. 
 
     
     
         8 . The method as claimed in  claim 3  comprising the step of:
 graphically bordering the unique element as the reinforcement notification with the corresponding PC device of the user account during step (F), if the specific element is the unique element. 
 
     
     
         9 . The method as claimed in  claim 3  comprising the step of:
 graphically reducing an opacity of each identical element as the reinforcement notification with the corresponding PC device of the user account during step (F), if the specific element is the unique element. 
 
     
     
         10 . The method as claimed in  claim 1  comprising the steps of:
 providing at least one reinforcement message as the reinforcement notification; and 
 audibly outputting the reinforcement message for the specific task with the corresponding PC device of the user account during step (F). 
 
     
     
         11 . The method as claimed in  claim 1  comprising the steps of:
 providing the specific task with a task completion timer; 
 simultaneously initiating the task completion timer and a specific iteration with the corresponding PC device of the user account, wherein the specific iteration is associated with the specific task and is from the plurality of iterations for steps (C) through (F); 
 designating an improper completion of the specific task with the corresponding PC device of the user account, if the task completion timer does lapse before an end of the specific iteration; and 
 designating a proper completion of the specific task with the corresponding PC device of the user account, if the task completion timer does not lapse before an end of the specific iteration. 
 
     
     
         12 . The method as claimed in  claim 1  comprising the steps of:
 tracking a completion progression of the plurality of rehabilitation tasks with the corresponding PC device of the user account during step (G); and 
 graphically outputting the completion progression with the corresponding PC device of the user account. 
 
     
     
         13 . The method as claimed in  claim 1  comprising the steps of:
 providing a patient rehabilitation history managed by the remote server; 
 relaying patient progression data collected from each iteration for steps (C) through (F) from the corresponding PC device of the user account to the remote server; and 
 appending the patient progression data into the patient rehabilitation history with the remote server. 
 
     
     
         14 . The method as claimed in  claim 13  comprising the steps of:
 prompting the user account to view the patient rehabilitation history with the corresponding PC device; and 
 displaying the patient rehabilitation history with the corresponding PC device of the user account, if the patient rehabilitation history is selected to be viewed by the user account. 
 
     
     
         15 . The method as claimed in  claim 1  comprising the steps of:
 providing a plurality of new rehabilitation tasks managed by the remote server; 
 relaying the new rehabilitation tasks from the remote server to the corresponding PC device after step (G); and 
 repeating steps (C) through (G) with the new rehabilitation tasks instead of the rehabilitation tasks.